Slippers by the Hearth
Style: Soft piano

[Verse 1]
Your knitted slippers rest so quiet on the rug tonight
tucked beside the hearth where embers gave their last small light
you have wandered far in dreams your feet don't need to roam
little traveller mine, you're already home

[Pre-chorus]
The fire has gone to sleep before you, curled and low
hush is settling soft as ashes, gentle as they go
and something in this room is holding on to you so

[Chorus]
Waylon, close your eyes and drift away on
every worry folds and melts like snow at grey dawn
nothing in this house will stir or wake you before day
rest here, little one, and let the hours stay on

[Verse 2]
The rug still holds the shape of where your small feet stood
warm as any promise that a house can keep for good
you left your steps behind you like a story softly told
and every thread of it was stitched to keep you from the cold

[Chorus]
Waylon, close your eyes and drift away on
every worry folds and melts like snow at grey dawn
nothing in this house will stir or wake you before day
rest here, little one, and let the hours stay on

[Bridge]
No flame is needed now to keep this small room warm
you are the quiet centre that the whole night forms around
sleep is just another blanket laid across your shoulders

[Chorus]
Waylon, close your eyes and drift away on
every worry folds and melts like snow at grey dawn
nothing in this house will stir or wake you before day
rest here, little one, and let the hours stay on

[Outro]
Somewhere your slippers wait beside the hearth gone cold and still
and you sleep on, held safe, exactly where you'll always be until

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